What is the North London Waste Plan?
The North London Waste Plan will consider what to do with all waste in the area up to 2020. It will identify sufficient sites to deal with this waste, and recommend a range of approaches, potentially including:
- Reducing the amount of waste generated in North London
- Increasing the amount of - and types of - recycling
- Increasing the sorting and treatment of waste with technologies such as composting and anaerobic digestion
- Using landfill sites near North London
- Generating more energy from waste in North London.
The Plan will be ratified by each borough at each stage of its development, acting as local planning authorities. It will form part of each borough’s Local Development Framework, and will identify and safeguard sites to deal with waste in these boroughs up to 2020.